The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 6

A coot is a black water bird with a white beak and a white forehead patch, and a moorhen is a black bird with a red and yellow beak; coots dive more and moorhens walk more on the banks.

Who acts: coot, moorhen, coots, moorhens · What happens: be, dive, walk · To what, where: black water bird, black bird, banks

This is a sentence of the lesson «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coot, moorhen, coots, moorhens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coot	det
2	coot	coot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	compound
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 beak	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 beak	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beak	amod
11	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 patch	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 patch	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 patch	amod
15	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 patch	compound
16	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beak	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bird	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bird	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 moorhen	det
20	moorhen	moorhen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bird	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 bird	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bird	det
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bird	amod
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	30 beak	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 beak	det
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beak	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 yellow	cc
29	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 red	conj
30	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bird	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 dive	punct
32	coots	coot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dive	nsubj
33	dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	conj
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 dive	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 walk	cc
36	moorhens	moorhen	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 walk	nsubj
37	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 dive	conj
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 walk	advmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 banks	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 banks	det
41	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 walk	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a coot	a black water bird and a black bird		with a white beak and a white forehead patch	tree rules
2	is a	present	a moorhen	a black bird		with a red beak	tree rules
3	dive	present	coots				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	walk	present	moorhens		the banks		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Trajectory

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:6.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/6/